Archive for the ‘offline’ Category

It made the rounds a while back that Chris Bolin built a page of his personal website that could only be viewed while you are offline.
This page itself is an experiment in that vein: What if certain content required us to disconnect? What if readers ...

This two-part series is a gentle, high-level introduction to offline web development. In Part 1 we got a basic service worker running, which caches our application resources. Now let's extend it to support offline.
Article Series:
The Setup
The Impl...

This two-part series is a gentle introduction to offline web development. Getting a web application to do something while offline is surprisingly tricky, requiring a lot of things to be in place and functioning correctly. We're going to cover all of th...

Offline web applications are becoming more and more popular. Offline support is so important that it's now common to talk about the 'Offline First' approach, where it becomes a primary consideration. It's also gathering popularity with the rise of Pro...

A straightforward tutorial by Una Kravets on caching assets and individually requested articles with Service Workers for offline reading.
I'm curious what the best practice will become. It's possible that asking users to click something is it. Also pos...

There was a lot of great talks from Google’s I/O event this year, and Jake Archibald’s talk on building offline-first is certainly one of them. The DevTools in 2016 talk is great too.
Or, decide for yourself! There is a playlist of all of them and...

Remy Sharp attended Google's first Progressive Web Apps event:
What's stood out for me was how a relatively small amount of JavaScript and some well considered code can truly create an offline first experience that doesn't just rival it's native count...

There was a time when people only related the use of push notifications to mobile applications. Luckily, that time has passed. Now there are Service Workers which can help us implement push notifications in desktop applications, and open up websites ev...